River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-01

board. This accounts for all of the people
on board the City of Montreal when il took
fire and burned in mid ocean, its passenger
list being 40 souls.
Four ladies and two children of
prominent family at Havana, Cuba, par
took freely of milk at breakfast, furnished
house. Before noon the whole six were
dead. The milkman, two servants and two
parties outside the house have been arrest d
for poisoning the milk. The dead ladies
were highly connected in social circles.
A large party of colored people from
Atlanta, Ga, visited Decatur Sunday for
celebration. After drinking freely some of
them became disorderly and were arrested.
This excited others and 21O negroes engaged
in a riot with the marshal and his posse, in
the course of which the marshal and one of
his aids was killed and one negro killed
and good many injured.
A railroad grader named Thomas
Rock was arrested, suspected of completely
in the murder of the Newer brothers on
Turkey creek Sunday night. He confessed,
but said he acted in self-defense A mob
started out from Friend, Neb., to lynch
Rock, but the officers took the prisoner to
Geneva where he was lodged in Jail.
AtChieago. John Streuvy. a barber shot
his wife four times, inflicting fatal wounds.
He had just returned from Europe, and,
il is alleged, found that she had been living
with another man during his absence. The
murderer was arrested while trying TO
crack jokes with bystanders regarding his
crime.
The first convictions in the Bald
Knobber trials have been secured at
Ozark, John Hills and Matt Ship man being
found guilty of whipping Clayton Whit
taker They were let off with a fine of s.
and costs. Five or six others plead guilty
to whipping Green Walker.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany has decided to reduce the present
cent per mile rates TO 3 cents, cent rates
to cents and q cent rates TO cents on all
lines throughout the country controlled by
the Southern a Central Pacific Railway
Companies
John Stricken, captain of the Cleve-
land Ball club has been arrested at the in.
stance of the Law and Order league for
playing ball on Sunday. The first Sunday
game was played on the 2lst. Stricker's case
will be a test of the law preventing such ex-
hibitiOns.
John Wilson, a Baptist preacher, one
of the Bald Knobbers, has plead guilty to
the whipping of one Green Walker and
thrown himself on the mercy OF the court.
here are % more Bald Knobbers against
whom charges are pending at Ozark, No.
1t is understood that the head of the
whisky trust will put So, 900 of their bonds
on the Peoria market in few days, Chi
cago to get 10000 and Cincinnati and
Louisville proportionate amounts. They
will be fioated at 90 cents per dollar
Judge Reeves. of Bloomington, H..
has admitted to bail in the sum Of 81 900
Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman OF
the Toledo, Peoria &W Western, who was held
responsible fOrthe smaSh-up at Chatsworth,
by which nearly 100 lives were lost.
The Anchor Manufacturing COM
pany's cooperage establishment covering 20
acres OF ground on the Detroit river burned
Monday morning. Loss S300,OOO, insurance
$4,000. Five hundred workmen are
thrown out of employment.
Mrs. Nancy jackson Farwell. the
venerable mother of United State Senator
Charles B. Farwell and John V. Farwell
died at Sterling, Ill, at the age of 80 years
She was born Jan IL, 1871, and was a ma.
tive of New York State.
The sale of 1,000-mile tickets. sus-
pended when the interstate commerce act
went into force has been resumed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
rate will be $40. the same as prevailing be-
fore the suspension.
The banks of the Galena, Ills, river
for considerable distance are lined with
Sci of a1l Siz I'D
which a sickening stencil emanates. Vari-
GUS theories are advanced in explanation of
the phenomenon.
Dressed beef men, in Chicago and
New York, are discussing the possibility of
a famine in their line of business Prices
for cattle are so low the dressed beef compa
MES make profit of SO on each animal
slaughtered.
Rodney ID. Wells, proprietor of the
oldest queensware and glass house in St
Louis, has made an assignment to F. A
Windt. The assets consist of stock valued
at 10000. The liabilities are not stated.
Eight of the Ozark, Mo-, Bald Knob
bers pleaded guilty to whipping a man.
All but one of them were remanded for
sentence. The one who was sentenced was
given fine of g and costs.
Mary Frahm, young woman, died
in Niles. Mich, from the effects of a clubbing
administered by her stepfather Charles
Huff. some days ago, while in liquor. Huff
has been arrested.
The bridge works of Morse Bros, at
Youngstown, Ohio, employing 300 men were
burned Sunday, all the machinery, tools
and stock being destroyed Loss 100000,
insurance SOS, 200.
At the Saratoga races Monday, a
collision occurred between five horses at the
head of the stretch, all going down. Two
of the drivers received fatal injuries.
A majority of the creditors of w. o.
Tyler & Co, the suspended paper dealers of
Chicago, have agreed to accept 22l5 cents
on the dollar of their claims.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's earnings show an increase of S92,-
9l3 for July, 1887, as compared with July,
1856.